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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 106
INSIDE
Editorial cartoonist Mike
Moreu takes a look at the
Supreme Court and the
flag-burning issue
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Asian student is target in racial incident
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
University police are investigating a
May 6 racially-motivated incident which
targetted an Asian student in Myers Hall,
Police Chief Chuck Horton said Monday.
Teckchee Chew, 23, a native of Singa
pore who has been in the United States
for two quarters, told police May 7,
someone had thrown eggs into his first-
floor window and torn down the blinds,
according to police reports.
John Davis, resident life coordinator
for Myers community, said a Confederate
flag also was thrown into Chew’s room. A
threatening racial slur alluding to the
Vietnam War was written on the flag.
He said because the perpetrator knows
where Chew lives, “it maxes us think it
was someone who lives in Myers or fre
quents it a lot.”
Resident Assistant A1 Zealy, a junior
landscape architecture major, said, “I
don’t think (Chew) understands how se
rious this is. The guys on the hall do.”
Since the incident, hall residents and
staff* members have met to discuss safety
in Myers community, said Daniel Hallen-
beck, acting housing director and asso-
A Confederate flag with a
racial slur written on it was
thrown into Chew’s room
date vice president for Student Affairs.
Samy Iskandar, a pre-med sophomore
who lives on Chew’s hall, said the resi-
dents were outraged by the incident and
“stayed up later for the next week to
watch out for anything suspicious.”
Zealy said a student safety task force
met Wednesday to discuss precautions.
“We’ve always had this group,” he said,
"but by initiating it formally, residents
might feel more comfortable with re
porting incidents.”
The group is trying to increase safety
in the community and has recommended
improving lighting outside the building,
trimming the bushes in areas around
first-floor windows and hiring more
rovers to patrol at night.
Zealy said the housing department
hires students as rovers to patrol halls
from 11 p.m. to 7 a m. The rovers carry
walkie-talkies and wear nametags.
This is the second incident on the hall
this year in which a student’s room was
broken into through a window, Zealy
said. During fall quarter, a student re
ported waking to find someone crawling
through his window.
He said the intruder quickly left the
room and the incident wasn’t reported to
University police.
In February, during Black History
Month, a number of incidents were re
ported in which posters in the Myers
lobby were defaced with racial slurs.
At presstime, Chew couldn’t be reached
for comment.
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6th district Democratic congressional candidate Roger Marrietta as Secretary of State Max Cleland
is'recognized Tuesday morning during the University kickoff of the week-long Vote ‘90 registration
campaign at the Tate Center Plaza. Right, freshman Young Democrat Mark White registers sopho
more Eric Dewitt to vote in the Tate Plaza Tuesday.
Nunn to students: Register
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn said young
people are leading the way in many
of tne revolutionary changes in the
world. He spoke to a crowd of about
300 students Tuesday at the Tate
Center plaza for the kick-off* of the
Vote ‘90 statewide voter registra
tion campaign.
Nunn urged students to support
the campaign by registering to
vote. In doing so, he said students
would be joining the German
people in celebrating the destruc
tion of the Berlin Wall and the stu
dents in China who marched and
gave their lives last May in Tia
nanmen Square.
“You’re demonstrating that
every individual in the country is
sovereign in their own right,” he
said.
Nunn said Georgia is near the
bottom of the list in voter registra
tion and turnout for the 18-24 age
group.
This week’s Vote *90 campaign
marks the first time University
students have been able to register
on campus to vote in their home
counties. Students also may choose
to register in Clarke County.
Registration barriers came down
when a new law, which also makes
University presidents deputy voter
registrars, cleared the Department
of Justice April 23.
The law was the brainchild of
Secretary of State Max Cleland
and Nunn. Cleland, also at the
Tate Center Monday, said he hopes
to register 50,000 young people
across the state during the drive.
Registration drives also will be
held at 32 other colleges and uni
versities across the state.
“It gives us a chance finally in
the state of Georgia to fulfill the ex
pectations we had in the 1940s
when we became the first state to
allow 18-year-olds to vote,” Nunn
said.
University President Charles
Knapp was sworn in as a deputy
voter registrar for the University
before he introduced Nunn.
“All of our students here at the
University have a responsibility to
be actively engaged in the political
process. The minimum that is re
quired of you as citizens is to vote,”
Knapp said.
Cleland said, “For those of you
who are cynical and get fed up with
government, join the club. All of us
involved in the process get fed up.”
But he said students in 1990
should be encouraged by the show
of student solidarity and its impact
worldwide.
Daniel Diaddigo, special projects
coordinator for the Vote ^0 cam
paign, said he was encouraged by
the crowd that was drawn Monday
to register. He also was impressed
with the cooperative efforts of the
eight student groups in the Stu
dent Voter Registration Council
that are working in the drive.
Groups in the council, which is a
standing organization within the
Student Association, include: the
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nity Council, Young Democrats,
Residence Hall Association and
Students for Environmental
Awareness.
Phil Smith, president of Young
Democrats and student liaison for
the campaign, said about 235 stu
dents registered Monday.
Diaddigo said, “I guess you could
say it was an optimistic picture of
what the next generation is going
to be. I hope the numbers bear that
out.”
The Vote ‘90 campaign will con
tinue today through Friday from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Tate Stu
dent Center plaza. Gubernatorial
candidate Andrew Young will
speak Wednesday at 3 p.m. and
University Athletic Director Vince
Dooley will speak at noon that day.
Several other statewide candi
dates are tentatively scheduled to
speak and musical entertainment
is scheduled each day.
University sophomore contracts meningitis
By PEGGY McGOFF
Staff Writer
A University sophomore and
Phi Mu sorority member was ad
mitted to an Atlanta hospital
Thursday night after apparently
contracting an undetermined
form of meningitis.
Northside Hospital declined to
release the patient’s condition.
“She appears to be past the
point of danger,” Health Services
Director Jacquelyn Kinder said.
A culture taken to determine if
either viral or bacterial menin
gitis is present may prove incon
clusive because antibiotics the
patient had been taking for a pre
vious infection could cloud the re
sults, said Dr. Florence Winship,
assistant director of Physical
Health Services.
Tests on blood and spinal fluid
samples should determine which
type of the disease is present,
said Dave Smith, an epidemiolo
gist with the state Department of
Human Resources. Test results
should be completed today.
Winship said the bacterial
University may suspend unvaccinated
The University will consider suspending students and employees
who don’t comply with the mandatory measle* vaccination program,
University President Charles Knapp said Monday.
The suspensions would become effective Tuesday, May 22, for all
students, faculty and staff bom on or after Jan. 1, 1957 who haven’t
reported to one of the two campus inoculation booths by 6 p.m. on May
18. If enacted, the suspensions would remain until adequate proof of
inoculation is shown, Knapp said.
Knapp’s announcement followed a decline in vaccinations during
the last few days. Health Service officials gave close to 3,000 vaccina
tions Wednesday and alsmost 2,500 Thursday, the first two days of the
mandatory inoculation program, according to Health Services Director
Jacquelyn Kinder.
Approximately 890 vaccinations were given Friday, 350 on Sat
urday and 970 hfonday, Kinder said.
“This is a significant decline from the daily totals of last week,” she
said.
Kinder said Health Services may have difficulty accommodating a
rush if a large number of people wait to get vaccinations.
Since Thursday, two new measles cases have been reported on
campus, making the total number of cases 33, Public Information Di
rector Tom Jackson said. The cases were diagnosed before Thursday
but weren’t discovered by Health Services until Monday because both
students were treated by private physicians.
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form is considered more dan- the spinal cord and brain,
gerous than the viral type. Men- No connection has been made
ingitis attacks the meninges of with the previous bacterial or
viral meningitis cases on campus,
Health Services officials said.
University freshman Stacy Ware
died April 16 apparently ofbacte-
rial meningitis at St. Mary’s Hos
pital in Athens.
Winship said that to her
knowledge, the student hadn’t
been treated by Health Services.
However, Cindy Powell, a ju
nior sociology major and a friend
of the student, said she took the
patient to the health center
Thursday afternoon where she
was treated for a severe head
ache. She was admitted to North-
side Hospital that night.
The patient’s family and four
of her friends are taking doses of
Rifampin, an antibiotic that kills
the meningococcal bacteria. Only
those who have had close contact
with a meningitis patient need
the precautionary drug, Winship
said.
Meningitis symptoms may in
clude a severe headache, nausea
and stiffness of the neck. Anyone
experiencing these symptoms
should contact a physician imme
diately.
Gay history recognized
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
Unfortunately, history has been
setting the record a little too
straight.
Although she didn’t coin the
phrase, Lawson Sullivan, the fe
male co-director of the Athens Gay
& Lesbian Association, agrees. She
decided to organize Gay History
Day and put together information
on living and dead historical fig
ures who were, or most likely were,
gay.
AGLA will man a table and dis
play of 12 gay historical figures
today at the Tate Student Center
plaza from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. as part
of Gay History Day. Books, articles
and a bibliography will be provided
as resources.
AGLA Secretary Terrance
Heath said Gay History Day
should raise public awareness of
homosexuals. Sullivan cited claims
from several sources that actor
James Dean, writer James
Baldwin and former first lady El
eanor Roosevelt are examples of
gay historical figures.
A homosexual herself, Sullivan
said the term "gay” is generally
used in reference to both male and
female homosexuals, although
some lesbian political groups resist
that terminology.
She said it’s hard to classify ho
mosexuals in history because in
ancient Grecian and Spartan cul
tures, homosexual acts were a
common male social practice and
weren’t considered immoral.
Heath said the desire to sponsor
Gay History Day stemmed from
seeing “decades and decades of bi
ographers whitewashing people’s
lives.”
Sullivan and Heath said the best
candidates for inclusion in gay his
tory have a healthy attitude to
ward their homosexuality and
have a significant emotional — and
to some extent physical —
relationship with someone of the
same sex.
Sullivan said she disapproves of
a practice called “outing, in which
gay advocacy groups or close rela
tions force public figures to admit
they are homosexuals. She said ad
mitting homosexuality is a private
affair; people who are farced to do
it publicly don't make good role
models because they’re scared and
defensive.
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